The House as
Social Metaphor: Architecture, Space, and Language in Western Samoa. In
Representing Space in Oceania: Culture in Language and Mind, Giovanni Bennardo (ed.), Pacific Linguistics, Department of
Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National
University, Canberra, 2002: 233 - 246.

The Tapa of Tonga
and Samoa: An Analysis of Style. Southern California Association for the
Study of African, Oceanic and Native American Art, San Diego, June, 1985.

International Conferences

From Object to
Icon: The Globalization of Samoan Tapa and Fale. Association for Social Anthropology in
Oceania, Auckland, New Zealand, February 2002.

Symbols of Samoa:
The Relocation of Architecture and Barkcloth from the Village Arena to the
National Stage. Association for Social
Anthropology in Oceania, Miccosukee, Florida, February 2001.

Current Developments in Samoan Tapa and Architecture.Association
for Social Anthropology in Oceania, Vancouver, British Columbia, February,
2000.

Changes in Samoan Material Culture.Association for
Social Anthropology in Oceania, Vancouver, British Columbia, February,
2000.

Dance and the Actualization of Space in Samoan Social Practice.Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania, Vancouver, British
Columbia, February, 2000.

Dance as
Negotiation: The Dynamics of Social Creation in Western Samoa. Association
for Social Anthropology in Oceania, Hilo, Hawai=i, February, 1999.

Architectural and
Ritual Space in Western Samoa, Association for Social Anthropology in
Oceania, San Diego, February, 1998.

Architectural
Strategies: The Adaptation of the Foreign in Samoan Domestic Structures, Association
for Social Anthropology in Oceania, San Diego, February, 1998.

The United States
and Samoa at the End of the Nineteenth Century, Association for Social
Anthropology in Oceania, San Diego, February, 1997.

The Tie That
Binds (part 2). Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania, San
Diego, February, 1997.

Old Patterns, New
Contexts: Samoan Architectural Strategies in a Modern World, Association for
Social Anthropology in Oceania, San Diego, February, 1997.

The Tie That
Binds: Cloth and the Manipulation of Samoan Social Space. Association for
Social Anthropology in Oceania, Kona, Hawai'i, February, 1996

Festivals and the Creation of Social Ties in Western Samoa.Association
for Social Anthropology in Oceania, Kona, Hawai'i, February, 1996

Vernacular Architecture in Western Samoa.Association for
Social Anthropology in Oceania, Kona, Hawai'i, February, 1996

Invitational Lectures

Public and
Private Devotion: Catholic Art Through Time as an
Expression of Faith. Invitational Lecture sponsored by the Indiana University
Southeast Newman Catholic Fellowship. New Albany, Indiana, March 2007.

From the Pacific Ocean to
Oceania: Samoan Space and the Humanities. Keynote address for
Southeast Indiana Humanities Conference.
New Albany, Indiana, February 2007.

Funeral Practices of the
Dogon of West Africa.Carnegie
Center for Art and History, New Albany, Indiana, July 2002

Funeral Practices in the
South Pacific. Carnegie
Center for Art and History, New Albany, Indiana, June 2002.

Death and Dying in Western Art. Opening lecture for the
exhibition A New Way of Seeing: Bereavement and Hope Through
the Arts, Indiana University Southeast, New Albany, Indiana, May 2002.